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Nina Simone: Pastel Blues / Let It All Out

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Label: RCA Victor Records
Released: 1965 / 1966
Time:
 72:08
Category: Vocal, Soul, Jazz
Producer(s): Cees Schrama, Daniel Richard
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.ninasimone.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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Pastel Blues (1965)

[1] Be My Husband (Andy Stroud) - 3:20
[2] Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Jimmie Cox) - 2:38
[3] End of the Line (John Edmondson, Cynthia Medley) - 2:54
[4] Trouble in Mind (Richard Jones) - 2:40
[5] Tell Me More and More and Then Some (Billie Holiday) - 3:08
[6] Chilly Winds Don't Blow (Hermann Krasnow, William Lovelock) - 4:01
[7] Ain't No Use (Rudy Stevenson) - 3:00
[8] Strange Fruit (Lewis Allan) - 3:29
[9] Sinnerman (traditional) - 10:19


Let It All Out (1966)

[10] Mood Indigo (Irving Mills, Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) - 2:26
[11] The Other Woman (Jessie Mae Robinson) - 3:02
[12] Love Me or Leave Me (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 4:05
[13] Don't Explain (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 4:19
[14] Little Girl Blue (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:32
[15] Chauffeur (Andy Stroud) - 2:47
[16] For Myself (Van McCoy) - 2:06
[17] The Ballad of Hollis Brown (Bob Dylan) - 4:55
[18] This Year's Kisses (Irving Berlin) - 2:58
[19] Images (Nina Simone, Waring Cuney) - 2:51
[20] Nearer Blessed Lord (Stroud) - 4:31

Tracks [1-9] was released as "Pastel Blues"in 1965 on Philips (US) PHM(S) 2(6)00-187
Tracks [10-20] was released as "Let It All Out" in 1966 on Philips (US) PHM(S) 2(6)00-202

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Nina Simone - Piano, Vocals, Arranger

Cees Schrama - CD Producer
Daniel Richard - CD Producer

      Pastel Blues (1965)
Al Schackman - Guitar, Harmonica
Rudy Stevenson - Guitar, Flute
Lisle Atkinson - Bass
Bobby Hamilton - Drums

Joel E. Siegel - Liner Notes

      Let It All Out (1966)
Al Shackman - Guitar
Rudy Stevenson - Guitar, Flute
Lisle Atkinson - Upright Bass
Bobby Hamilton - Drums
Horace Ott - Arranger, Conductor

Bryan Koniarz - Producer
Hal Mooney - Audio Production, Producer
Ken Druker - Executive Producer
Jeff Willens - Mastering
Hollis King - Art Direction
Sherniece Smith - Art Producer
Kazumi Matsumoto - Series Design
Don Bronstein - Cover Photo
Maurice Seymour - Cover Photo
Charles Champlin - Liner Notes

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Pastel Blues is a studio album by Jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone (1933–2003). It was recorded in 1964 and 1965 in New York City and released in 1965 by Philips Records. The name Pastel Blues is somewhat deceiving because the songs on the album incorporate different musical styles besides the blues, such as jazz, soul and folk music.



If this is blues, it's blues in the Billie Holiday sense, not the Muddy Waters one. This is one of Nina Simone's more subdued mid-'60s LPs, putting the emphasis on her piano rather than band arrangements. It's rather slanted toward torch-blues ballads like "Strange Fruit," "Trouble In Mind," Billie Holiday's own composition "Tell Me More and More and Then Some," and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." Simone's then-husband, Andy Stroud, wrote "Be My Husband," an effective adaptation of a traditional blues chant. By far the most impressive track is her frantic ten-minute rendition of the traditional "Sinnerman," an explosive tour de force that dwarfs everything else on the album. Pastel Blues has been combined with the 1966 LP Let It Out onto a single-disc CD reissue.

Let It All Out is one of Nina Simone's more adult pop-oriented mid-'60s albums, with renditions of tunes by Duke Ellington ("Mood Indigo"), Billie Holiday ("Don't Explain"), Irving Berlin ("This Year's Kisses"), and Rodgers & Hart ("Little Girl Blue"). As ever, Simone ranges wide in her selection: Bob Dylan's "The Ballad of Hollis Brown," a swaggering adaptation of "Chauffeur Blues" (credited to her husband of the time, Andy Stroud), the gospel hymn "Nearer Blessed Lord," and Van McCoy's "For Myself." "Images" is an a cappella adaptation of a poem about the beauty of blackness by Waring Cuney. All of Simone's Philips albums are solid, and this is no exception, while it isn't the best of them. This LP has been combined with the 1965 album Pastel Blues on a single-disc CD reissue.

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide
 

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